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Last month, a peculiar scrap of music history went up for auction in England: a framed pair of ELVIS PRESLEY's husky briefs — "unwashed," according to the BBC, and still "soiled with stains." The Big Hurt By DAVID THORPE | September 21, 2012

Rick Bellaire, one of the chief organizers of the new Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame, had an early feel for the state's gifts to the national culture. Honor Roll By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | January 13, 2012

While we all await the inevitable "Last Days of Amy Winehouse" report from Rolling Stone , let's take a breather and remember the voice. It was slow, smoky, insinuating, sweet-and-sour, and seemed to conjure a handful of jazz-and-soul divas in a sylla In Memoriam By JON GARELICK | July 29, 2011

I asked the question this way: "Where would you want to be buried?" Not "do," but "would." That is to say if, by chance, you were to die, unlikely as that might be, where would you want to spend all of nonexistence? Spooky? A bit, but Massachusetts's cemeteries are also the bucolic, final resting places of many great American writers. By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | June 18, 2010

There is nothing new about bands playing on television. But local bands and local channels? Lately there’s been something of an explosion. Suddenly local music is all over the airwaves By SAM PFEIFLE | May 14, 2010

For those who have felt that the entertainment value of Our Little Towne’s mayoral elections has been in serious decline since the Bud-I’s extended stay in New Jersey, look no further than the RIFuture blog. Drama queens and vampire squids By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | April 23, 2010

In rock ’n’ roll, it was possible to live in Harvard Square, be a musician — a local musician — and be able to pay your rent and find restaurants where you could eat and buy food and survive, and feel that there was a sense of . . . future, with hope and Rock legend Peter Wolf serves dinner and verse to the Phoenix ’s poet . By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | April 09, 2010

The French Press occupies the conceptual space matching its geographic location: to the left of Dunkin Donuts — more local, more artisanal, but hitting the same basic notes. The French Press is making a name for itself By BRIAN DUFF | March 26, 2010

Amiri Baraka put it best in his poem "In the Funk World": "If Elvis Presley is King/Who is James Brown, God?" So, by that logic, is Fela Anikulapo Kuti higher than or equal to God? Knitting Factory (2010) By ZETH LUNDY | February 12, 2010

In this chapter, "The Drugs Don't Work," aging rock star Emerson Cutler and his manager, Jack Flynn, are seeking inspiration — and desperately trying to jumpstart his career. An excerpt from Bill Flanagan’s new novel, Evening’s Empire , the true story of a band that never existed By BILL FLANAGAN | February 05, 2010

The notion that regional musical flavors exist independently in American cities is quickly becoming an archaic truism, seeing as how the world really is a stage these days, at least in the digital sense. Matador (2010) By ZETH LUNDY | January 08, 2010

"Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools." So wrote Henry David Thoreau, a long time ago, in Walden . Stereo equipment is so passé. This year's unnecessarily awesome gadgets will stir coffee and turn T-shirts into guitars. By MIKE MILIARD | December 11, 2009

There's a plethora of Elvis Presley albums on the market, most of them compilations and box sets, each focusing on certain hits, eras, and/or styles. RCA/Legacy (2009) By ZETH LUNDY | December 11, 2009

After a few days of Indian Summer to remind us of the summer we nearly didn't have, it's timely to shed some warm light on albums released recently that didn't get their proper due. Albums you shouldn't let slip by By SAM PFEIFLE | November 13, 2009

David Bowie’s 1969 album Man of Music/Man of Words was retitled a few years after its debut, most likely because it was quickly becoming known as Space Oddity and Those Other Eight Songs We Could Care Less About . Virgin/EMI By ZETH LUNDY | October 30, 2009

Photos from the exhibit on display from October 15 to December 23, 2009. ACT UP New York: Activism, Art and the AIDS Crisis 1987–1993 at the Carpenter Center
By CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS | October 23, 2009

In 1973, when she was an 18-year-old rock fan, Rosanne Cash's dad gave her a list of songs he felt she should know — mostly country, all falling under the current banner Americana. She held onto that list, and now she's recorded a dozen tunes from it. Manhattan (2009) By JEFF TAMARKIN | October 02, 2009